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Tuning into Passion and Ambition

Video – We all have a little voice inside of our head that tries to hold us back. Sometimes you have to turn down that voice and find passion.

The Light Side of the Dark Night of the Soul

Kim Hutchinson, In5D Guest Waking Times The phenomenon known as the Dark Night of the Soul is something which many spiritual seekers experience on their journey to re-enlightenment. It can be a painful and frightening process, but it can also be liberating and empowering. It all depends on your perspective and your ability to remain detached. Peeling

Meditating on the Purpose of Life

Chris Renzo, Contributor Waking Times Purpose is a moment to moment experience. The word purpose is synonymous with motive, cause, reason, and intention. Our life’s purpose has everything to do with how we choose to live. Yet like life, our purpose is ever changing. When we seek to understand our purpose we seek to understand our

The Elusive Self: an Archetypal Inquiry

Gary “Z” McGee, Staff Writer Waking Times “A human being is part of the whole called by us universe. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and

Transforming the Mind: De-Programming Mental Conditioning

Ryan Brown, Contributor Waking Times There are times in our day-to-day life when we experience ourselves acting or thinking in ways we wish could be different. Sometimes, it can seem like our thoughts are running on auto-pilot, and whoever is doing the driving is not the most qualified person for the job. These thoughts then

Titles and Templates of Conformity

Julian Wash, Contributor Waking Times Dear Humans, Today I wish to return to your awareness an aspect of the Human condition that readily conforms to labels and titles. Titles come in all flavors, shapes and sizes, so everybody gets to have one. Some seem rather impressive, whereas others are a bit more diminutive indeed. But

Within the Range of Possibilities

Ida Lawrence, Contributor Waking Times When a small, but potent, percent of the population is ready to expand their range of possibilities and validate new information, putting aside the ego’s opinion in favor of exploration, then change for the many is possible. Change, when called for, is something we need not approach with trepidation… although

Vedanta – The Science of Self Discovery

Frank Huguenard, Staff Writer Waking Times At the heart of Hinduism is a spiritual and philosophical framework known as Vedanta. To understand the distinction between the two, it’s important to understand the origin of the word Hindu. When the first explorers from Persia traveled to India (then known as Bharat), they came across the Indus

Freedom From The Delusional Ego

Paul Lenda, Guest Waking Times “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. One man thinks himself the master of others, but remains more of a slave than they are.” –Jean-Jacques Rousseau Although Rousseau was mainly referring to human society as a whole, even 250 years ago he understood that humanity can upgrade itself

The Mask of the Me-Christ: Harnessing Christ-like Courage in a Secular Age

Gary ‘Z’ McGee, Staff Writer Waking Times In Jung’s famous book The Red Book, he comes to a library inside a castle, looking for a place of sanctuary and reflection. When the librarian asks him to choose a book he names The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis. He debates with the librarian what it

The Hidden Fuel of Intention

Soren Dreier, Guest Waking Times ‘Hope’ and ‘Belief’ can be very tricky concepts to frame right. They can be very low frequency or they can be very high frequency. It all comes down to the consciousness that inhabits them. If they are low frequency they are an extension of the Matrix or the control system.

Tao Teaching: Your Cosmic Connection and Spiritual Contract

David James Lees, Guest Waking Times ‘The sun will always set whether you watch it or not’… This is a wonderful spiritual teaching that I received from my wise Taoist Master in China on the ‘Tao’ or ‘Way’ of the Cosmos and its fundamental relationship and interaction with all our lives. The teaching serves as

9 Key Components of the Shift Towards Higher Consciousness

Dylan Charles, Editor Waking Times Facing considerable political, economic, social and ecological crises, the human race is desperate for a transformation and a new direction. Business as usual ensures that we are doomed to run a course of half-conscious self-destruction, as man-made catastrophes multiply and stress mounts in every aspect of life. We must overthrow

How Do I Know If It’s My Soul or My Ego Talking?

Rhiame, Contributor Waking Times In personocratia, we talk about making the transfer of power from ego to soul in order to create the shift of consciousness that we hope for. But how do I know if it is my soul or my ego talking? Since it is a recurrent question, I thought it was time

Relax In The Cosmic Simultaneity Of All

Osho Waking Times If the world has evolution as the goal, then what will be the goal of evolution? Why evolution at all? Why in the first place? You will have to create another abstraction, and it will be a regress Ad Infinitum. Whatsoever you fix as the goal, the question will remain relevant about that. Why?

Inner Alchemy: A Bridge Between Worlds

Chris Bourne, Openhand Contributor Waking Times A new paradigm of being is opening up. It is here all around us. But sometimes it’s extremely hard to balance the connection to this ‘new world’ with living day-to-day in society, especially because not everyone is yet reading from this divine ‘script’. It can sometimes feel like it’s

Listen to Your Heart’s Wisdom

Dr. Stewart Bitkoff, Contributor Waking Times  While we are living in unsettled times, it seems that many periods in human history have been that way. Consider this famous quote from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, authored in 1859. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was

On an Emotional Roller-Coaster: Fear is Part of Your Intelligence

Osho Waking Times “When moments of fear come, be fearful, tremble with fear. Fear comes – it is natural. When you allow fear and you tremble, watch it, enjoy it, and in that watching you will transcend it.” -Osho I feel I’m always on a roller-coaster of feelings. How to get off it? I’ve tried


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